Results for "Savoy Jazz"

D-Day Memories - Hymn To The Fallen

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1999

Various Artists: The Savoy Story: Volume One- Jazz

by C. Andrew Hovan
December 1, 1999

You truly need a score card to keep up with the distribution end of the Savoy label over the past five to ten years or so. Going as far back as this reviewer can remember, Muse was reissuing the catalog on vinyl and then CD, usually with re-done covers. A bit further down the road, things ...

Jimmy Scott: The Savoy Years And More...

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 1999

While time may heal all wounds, sometimes you wonder why those wounds are ever inflicted in the first place. Little Jimmy Scott, after years of as a cult figure in an on-again, off-again career in singing, is enjoying a resurgence in interest in his seventies. People like Nancy Wilson and Frankie Valli and Nancy Wilson understood ...

Midnight Session

By Art Blakey

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1998

A Closer View

By Ralph Towner

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1998

Softly

By Marc Copland

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1998

Marc Copland: Softly

by Joel Roberts
July 1, 1998

One of the intriguing things about pianist Marc Copland is that he started out playing the saxophone and was enjoying a successful career on that instrument, including a stint with the Chico Hamilton Quintet and an album with guitarist John Abercrombie, when he decided to switch gears and take up the piano. And after several years ...

Art Blakey: Midnight Session

by John Sharpe
April 1, 1998

In the fall of 1956, Blakey introduced a new edition of the Jazz Messengers with Jackie McLean (alto), Bill Hardman (trumpet), Sam Dockery (piano) and Spanky DeBrest(bass). Over the next 25 years Blakey's bands would go through many personnel changes (sometimes it seems as if everyone in jazz has worked with Art) but the hard bop ...

Krelm / Backwards Werewolf

By Ralph Carney

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1997

Ana

By Ralph Towner

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1997